A tale of two cities:)

[Benno]

Melbourne > Sydney. By a loooooooooonnnnnggggggg way

Sydney is a nice place to visit, but definitely wouldn't want to live there again.

[Colette]

Thanks everyone - on both counts - it's much appreciated

[Big Al Glynn]

Thanks everyone - on both counts - it's much appreciated

Take it easy Colette, there are bad apples wherever you go, will you be ok ???????

[smek]

Sydney has to be the choice it simply has the most variety, Sydney is truly a metropolis we have a choice of everything - beaches, fine dining, culture, country, wineries withing two hours, the blue mountains, a harbour that you need to take trip around, traffic (but that is only if you live in the wrong area to where you work)

the reason Sydney doesn't turn up in big numbers to sporting events like in Melbourne is because we have something to do.

Yes it is more expensive but you pay for what you get.

Nick

geez you obviously haven't spent much time in Melbourne. Way more culture and better dining than Sydney. Much better bars too, thanks to the cheaper liquor licences. I'll probably give Sydney the better beaches (although I haven't had a proper summer here yet) because the ocean beaches have some seriously cold water, even in the heights of summer. Still loved going down to Half Moon Bay after work in Summer though..

[seraph]

Hope you're ok Colette... humans can be such scum sometimes

My vote's for Sydney, just because I love her well

J.

[Smitty]

Sydney has to be the choice it simply has the most variety, Sydney is truly a metropolis we have a choice of everything - beaches, fine dining, culture, country, wineries withing two hours, the blue mountains, a harbour that you need to take trip around, traffic (but that is only if you live in the wrong area to where you work)

the reason Sydney doesn't turn up in big numbers to sporting events like in Melbourne is because we have something to do.

Yes it is more expensive but you pay for what you get.

Nick

hehe
haha...here we go the ol' Synney vs Melb deal

Melbourne has wineries within 20 mins from the CBD (or the world renown Yarra Valley an hour away)
Melbourne has beaches...for swimming with the family in safety or surfing for those who do... Bells is home to Aussie surfing
and Torquay is surf capital of Oz
Melbourne definitely has the better dining ..and its cheaper (Gawd. is it cheap compared to Sydney..Doyles at the Rocks floored me price wise last week)
Melbourne is the art and fashion capital of Oz ..
Melbourne has the Dandenong ranges with 3/4hr from the CBD
Melbourne has better trams than Sydney (and no restaurant trams in Sydney)
Sydney has a harbour..nice one too, bugger to get around on
Melbourne has the Gt Ocean Road..its a bugger now too with speed zones and too many caravans
Melbourne has the Island..yep Phillip Is and Sandown and Calder and Winton raceways
Sydney is older..has to be...has Mrs Macs chair too!

BOTH have VAST areas of new housing a squillion kms from anywhere...with no trees and little pub transport
traffic?...well not going there


so there ya go!

cheers

Smitty

[aardvark]

There was a professor from Sydney (could have been Melbourne, don't really remember) who the South Aus state government brought to Adelaide to try and revitalise the city. In an interview he said "The people of Adelaide have been spoilt by not having to wait an hour in queues."

Fuck, that's WHY I live in Adelaide! If he thinks making queues longer (for just about anything going from my trips around the country) is going to revitalise things, he can just piss off back to the land of over priced housing and food, where traffic is horrendous and people alledgedly spend hours waiting in queues!!

[robracer]

that's WHY I live in Adelaide! !!

Does not count jase.... this is a tale of two cities........... not a tale of two cities & a backwater

[Naked Twin]

Sydney has to be the choice it simply has the most variety, Sydney is truly a metropolis we have a choice of everything - beaches, fine dining, culture, country, wineries withing two hours, the blue mountains, a harbour that you need to take trip around, traffic (but that is only if you live in the wrong area to where you work)

the reason Sydney doesn't turn up in big numbers to sporting events like in Melbourne is because we have something to do.

Yes it is more expensive but you pay for what you get.

Nick

hehe
haha...here we go the ol' Synney vs Melb deal


Melbourne has wineries within 20 mins from the CBD (or the world renown Yarra Valley an hour away)
Melbourne has beaches...for swimming with the family in safety or surfing for those who do... Bells is home to Aussie surfing
and Torquay is surf capital of Oz
Melbourne definitely has the better dining ..and its cheaper (Gawd. is it cheap compared to Sydney..Doyles at the Rocks floored me price wise last week)
Melbourne is the art and fashion capital of Oz ..
Melbourne has the Dandenong ranges with 3/4hr from the CBD
Melbourne has better trams than Sydney (and no restaurant trams in Sydney)
Sydney has a harbour..nice one too, bugger to get around on
Melbourne has the Gt Ocean Road..its a bugger now too with speed zones and too many caravans
Melbourne has the Island..yep Phillip Is and Sandown and Calder and Winton raceways
Sydney is older..has to be...has Mrs Macs chair too!

BOTH have VAST areas of new housing a squillion kms from anywhere...with no trees and little pub transport
traffic?...well not going there


so there ya go!

cheers

Smitty

you left of one thing, hook turns and you can keep them
world renown Yarra, is that the turd coloured river that someone swam in once
You can have the art and fashion capital, you will look real pretty in a nice frock carrying your mozart

look the easiest way to tell which is best is look at the number plates and what is said. The last time I saw a VIC number plate it read "Vic on the move" which I believe is on the move outta there NSW simply says premier state, which translates to number 1!
Nothing better then messing with mexicans

To be fair I could live in Melbourne, I do like the city as it is relatively flat but Sydney is where they will bury me.

Nick

[Che]

Tale of two cities huh.... Tis a far far better thing I do now than I have ever done before, tis a far far sweeter rest I go to than I have ever known... Knit away madam Defarge...what drugs?

[smek]

Fuck, that's WHY I live in Adelaide!

That's why I ride a bike =)

[red_dave]

I love Melbourne...

Perfect wee wee stop on the way to PI

[Smitty]

[you left of one thing, hook turns and you can keep them

better than a fight with a 20 tonne tram

[fireyrob]

Case closed

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sor ... 72649.html

[robracer]

thats a classic, I have been playing the kiddy version for so long with miss 6 & miss 4.5 I had forgotten about the real monopoly